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Date: 03 May 2010 17:57:31
Time goes by and I can't keep up.... The last Sunday of April saw us singing 'Teach me O Lord' (Attwood) at the Eucharist and 'God be in my head' (Davies) at Evensong. We are missing our strongest soprano who managed to dodge clouds of volcano ash to visit her daughter in Australia. Last Sunday 'A new commandment' (Aston) complemented the Gospel reading perfectly, and also the theme of the Vestry Group - where the children made up their own list of commandments, some rather funny. Festival Evensong came at the end of the Town's Music Festival, with guest preacher Mark Chapman (Ripon College, Cuddesdon) who gave us detailed information on the hymn 'Jerusalem', our last hymn of the evening. In return, he had to listen to us singing the Sweeney Responses, Moeran in D canticles and 'Let all the world' (Vaughan Williams). We were glad our vicar and former pupil of Prof. Chapman was singing with us - as we could blame any mistakes on him! The evening was rounded off in fine style with Bach's 'Toccata and Fugue in D Minor' - the whole congregation stayed to listen, which is quite unusual - you could tell it was a discerning bunch at this Music Festival. I have counted the number of choir members we have had over the last 15 years and it is 86 (allowing for moves and deaths, there has been a consistent 25-ish over that period). You certainly can't call that 'dead wood'.